Summary OfThey Shut Me Up In Prose - 937 Words

In â€Å"They Shut Me Up in Prose,† Dickinson discusses how women are confined in society’s structured roles on women in the Victorian era. Dickinson does so in three stanzas, with an inconsistent rhyme scheme. This poem is influenced by the inequalities between genders and the limitations that prevented women from enjoying things that were seen as specifically for men, such as writing poems and having a higher education. In it, she uses various literary and poetic elements. In stanza 1, Dickinson begins by expressing the captivity that she feels due to society controlling what she can and cannot do. In lines 1 and 2, Dickinson explains that she was limited to only writing in â€Å"Prose†. She capitalizes â€Å"Prose† and â€Å"Girl† to emphasize that women†¦show more content†¦She also capitalizes and personifies â€Å"Brain† to emphasize her intelligence to show that she’s smarter and more creative than what society gives her credit for. Dickinson uses dashes to present the connection between these lines that show that society should see beyond the gender roles and recognize that women are capable of more than what they-- society-- think. In the last two lines, Dickinson further explains the feeling of being confined by society’s ideas of a woman. She capitalizes â€Å"Bird,† â€Å"Treason,† and â€Å"Pound† to represent how she feels caged, and â€Å"Bird† symbolizes the fr eedom that is being locked up. Also, she uses an analogy in â€Å"Treason† to show that she attempts to be free when she writes poems and going against what society expects her to do. Dickinson uses dashes to connect the thought of being â€Å"in the Pound†, which symbolizes being caged, for â€Å"Treason† and shows that Dickinson and other rebellious women are extending beyond those boundaries that men have built. Lastly, Dickinson conveys the themes of awareness and freedom to reveal that not only herself but also other women feel caged because men won’t look beyond beauty and see what women are actually capable of. In stanza 3, Dickinson finishes the poem with expressing how she wants the same freedom that men have and that she’s done with the